p. 10 | Anti-Cigarette Sunday

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Jun 20, 1912

Anti-Cigarette Sunday

JUNE 23 has been appointed as a day when special attention will be given throughout the country to a consideration of the evils of the cigarette. On that day Sunday-schools are expected to give a considerable portion of their time to a study of the cigarette and its effect upon those who smoke it. The anti-cigarette movement is well deserving of support. The use of the cigarette, by the growing boy especially, can not be too strongly condemned. The cigarette gets hold of the child earlier than liquor is able to. It quickly opens the way for indulgence in intoxicating beverages, and creates an appetite for them. No better work can be done for the boy than to set clearly before him the evil results of indulgence in that dangerous habit which dissipates the energies, wrecks the system, dulls and destroys the finer sensibilities of the child and youth, and wrecks the brightest prospects of young manhood.